(Share (%) of total consumption expenditure, by country)Īn additional fifth (20.4 %) of household budgets in the EU Member States in 2020 was spent on the following: Recreation and culture (6.7 %), Furnishings and household equipment (4.9 %), Restaurant and hotels (4.8 %) and Clothing and footwear (4.0 %).
This was the second most important item in household budgets in Slovenia (18.5 %), Luxembourg (16.3 %), Denmark (14.3 %), Austria (13.9 %) and Germany (13.5 %).įigure 1: Structure of consumption expenditure by COICOP, 2020 Household expenditure on transport ranged from 5.2 % in Romania to 18.5 % in Slovenia.
Food and non-alcoholic beverages represented the most important item in household budgets in only two EU Member States, in Estonia (22.3 %) and Malta (19.8 %). The share of household expenditure spent on food and non-alcoholic beverages ranged from 9.4 % in Luxembourg to 27.6 % in Romania.This ranged from 8.4 % in Malta to 49.2 % in Hungary. Expenditure on housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels represented the highest share of household budgets in the vast majority of EU Member States.In 2020, 61 % of household consumption expenditure in the EU was spent on housing, food, and transportįigure 1 shows that, in 2020, more than 60 % of the household consumption expenditure (60.6 %) in 23 EU Member States, for which data are currently available, was spent on the following three ( COICOP) consumption categories : Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (32.7 %), Food and non-alcoholic beverages (17.1 %), and Transport (10.8 %). Structure of household consumption expenditure